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		<title>Virgil -- Georgics [Georgica], Book 1, l.  40ff (1.40) (29 BC) [tr. Rhoades (1881)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smile on this My bold endeavour. [Audacibus annue coeptis] Calling on (now declared divine) Augustus Caesar to bless his poetry. This line, and a similar one in Virgil&#8217;s Aeneid (9.625), inspired the phrase &#8220;Annuit cœptis&#8220; (&#8220;He [God] has favored our undertakings&#8221;) on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States. (Source (Latin)). Alternate [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Smile on this<br />
My bold endeavour.</p>
<p><em>[Audacibus annue coeptis]</em></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>Georgics [Georgica]</i>, Book 1, l.  40ff (1.40) (29 BC) [tr. Rhoades (1881)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Georgics_(Rhoades)/I#:~:text=smile%20on%20this%0AMy%20bold%20endeavour" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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<a href="https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States_reverse_monochrome.png"><img src="https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States_reverse_monochrome-300x300.png" alt="Great Seal of the United States (reverse)" title="Great Seal of the United States (reverse)" width="300" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-61540" /></a>Calling on (now declared divine) Augustus Caesar to bless his poetry. This line, and a similar one in <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0055%3Abook%3D9%3Acard%3D621#:~:text=Iuppiter%20omnipotens%2C%20audacibus%20adnue%20coeptis.">Virgil's <i>Aeneid</i> (9.625)</a>, inspired the phrase <em>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annuit_c%C5%93ptis">Annuit cœptis</a>"</em> ("He [God] has favored our undertakings") on the reverse of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States">Great Seal of the United States</a>. <br><br>

(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0059%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1#:~:text=audacibus%20adnue%20coeptis">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Aid my bold design.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:5.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=free%20course%2C%20and-,aid%20my%20bold%20design,-%3B">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>To my bold Endeavours add thy Force.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_Virgil_(Dryden)/Georgics_(Dryden)/Book_1#:~:text=to%20my%20bold%20Endeavours%20add%20thy%20Force">Dryden</a> (1709), l. 60]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Aid my bold design.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Georgics_(Nevile)/Book_1#:~:text=willing%20ear%2C%20and-,aid%20my%20bold%20design,-%3B">Nevile</a> (1767), l. 50] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Favour my adventurous enterprise.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22adventurous%20enterprise%22">Davidson</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Bid my gallant enterprise succeed.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Georgics_of_Virgil/q3MQAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22gallant%20enterprise%22">Blackmore</a> (1871)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Favor my bold emprise.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Literal_Translation_of_the_Eclogues_an/ZghPAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22bold%20emprise%22">Wilkins</a> (1873)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Our bold endeavor bless.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.18134/page/n65/mode/2up?q=%22oui+lx%29ld+t%27ulofivour+bless.%22">King</a> (1882)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Favor my adventurous enterprise.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/bucolicsgeorgics0000aham/page/52/mode/2up?q=%22favor+my+adventurous+enterprise%22">Bryce</a> (1897)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Favour my bold endeavour.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eclogues_and_Georgics_(Mackail_1910)/Georgics_1#:~:text=favour%20my%20bold%20endeavour">Mackail</a> (1899)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Smile on this<br>
My bold endeavour.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0058%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1#:~:text=smile%20on%20this%0AMy%20bold%20endeavour">Greenough</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O smile upon this my bold emprise!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Georgics_of_Virgil_in_English_Verse/tYFgMng6wfMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22bold%20emprise%22">Way</a> (1912)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Give assent to my bold emprise.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/VirgilGeorgics1.html#:~:text=give%20assent%20to%20my%20bold%20emprise">Fairclough</a> (Loeb) (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Be gracious to this my bold design.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/georgicsofvirgil0000cday/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22my+bold+design%22">Day-Lewis</a> (1940)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Condone this enterprise<br>
Of bold experiment.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/virgilsgeorgics0000unse/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22condone+this%22">Bovie</a> (1956)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I hope for an easy passage in this bold venture.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ecloguesgeorgics0000slav/page/44/mode/2up?q=%22bold+venture%22">Slavitt</a> (1971)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Assent to bold undertakings.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/virgilsgeorgicsn0000mile/page/68/mode/2up?q=%22bold+undertakings%22">Miles</a> (1980)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Smile on my enterprise.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/georgics00virg/page/58/mode/2up?q=%22smile+on+my+enterprise%22">Wilkinson</a> (1982)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Agree to my bold beginning.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilGeorgicsI.php#anchor_Toc533589841:~:text=agree%20to%20my%20bold%20beginning">Kline</a> (2001)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Assent to this work boldly begun.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/virgilsgeorgicsn0000virg_i3n1/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22assent+to%22">Lembke</a> (2004)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Bless the boldness of this undertaking.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Georgics/a1kVDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22bless%20the%20boldness%22">Fallon</a> (2006)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Approve my bold endeavour.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/georgicspoemofla0000virg/page/6/mode/2up?q=bold">Johnson</a> (2009)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Grant me the right to enter upon this bold<br>
Adventure of mine.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Georgics_of_Virgil/HTbFCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=bold">Ferry</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Look with favor upon a bold beginning.<br>
[<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=W3SG1hJSArIC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=RA2-PR25&dq=%22Look+with+favor+upon+a+bold+beginning%22&hl=en&source=newbks_fb#v=onepage&q=%22Look%20with%20favor%20upon%20a%20bold%20beginning%22&f=false">Bartlett's</a>]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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